in between dry burns

[Joie]

ok I have a couple EVODS and T3s.....so I have noticed that some people say they go 10-14 days or more on them before dry burning? I seem to need to do more often.....do you do something in between these dry burns? Do you rinse and let sit or just keep on using for a long time. I seem to lose flavor after a couple days and they really look gunked up ( flavor wicks that is ). Do I just continue to use or do I rinse off and let dry and use again?
I use 2.5 coils and. 50/50 juice

 

[xtwosm0kesx]

10-14 days seems like an extremely long time, unless you hardly vape and youre vaping unflavored or something.

Depending on the juice/wick configuration, i usually clean/dry burn/replace cotton flavor wicks every other tank, so every other day at the most.

Some juices like MBV Sticky Bun, for example, will gunk up a coil pretty good in just 1 tank.

 

[State O' Flux]

Rinse out with warm water when I change juice flavors - and grab a clean T3S or EVOD while other ones are drying.
After a few dry burns to de-gunk the coil, I'll change the flavor wicks out every week or so with fresh 3mm bamboo wick.
Use a 3V carto tank at home, so most of my EVODs and T3Ss are ready to go with clean coils and fresh flavor wicks... used mostly when I'm out and about.

As long as your original silica wicks are in good shape, I see no reason why you can't clean and dry burn indefinitely, other than you can get better taste with cotton or bamboo flavor wicks... and if you want to try it, replace the coil wick too. The downside to using cotton or bamboo is you can burn them easily if they aren't wet... you have a bit more leeway with silica.

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[Joie]

wow....clean and dry burn daily....seems extreme. Maybe I will just buy replacement coils.....seems like a lot of work.

 

[Joie]

then just rinsing them and setting aside to dry is good enough for a few days. When you dry burn do you do it with the flavor wicks still in place before you do a complete replacement of wicks.

 

[State O' Flux]

wow....clean and dry burn daily....seems extreme. Maybe I will just buy replacement coils.....seems like a lot of work.

It all depends on the juice. We've all used juice that, like xtwosm0kesx says, can gunk up a coil real fast... other juices, a coil can stay pretty clean for days. I don't think I've ever seen a coil last more than about 6-7 days with a really "clean" juice.

 

[Joie]

ok...so I can start spending more cleaning time then. Did you dry burn occasionally with flavor wicks in place....kind of like little spirts to free it up a little.....or should I completely disassemble after rinses?

 

[xtwosm0kesx]

You don't have to do it every day, but it greatly improves performance/flavor to do it more frequently. Currently i take fresh pt/evod heads, rebuild them, and ditch the silica flavor wicks and replace them with cotton using the cotton ball method, keeping the main silica wick for dry burning. Once the main silica is nasty/worn out, i go full cotton and replace the main wick.

I make multiple pieces of flavor wick/wicks at a time and when you get it down, it literally takes 2 minutes to pull the head, open it up, pitch the flavor wick, dry burn it, slap in new f-wick, prime and go. I'd say i easily spent 5 mins a day stopping to buy cigs (non-carton buying idiot), so i honestly spend about the same amount of time in a given week fiddling with heads/tanks as i would grabbing smokes.

 

[State O' Flux]

ok...so I can start spending more cleaning time then. Did you dry burn occasionally with flavor wicks in place....kind of like little spirts to free it up a little.....or should I completely disassemble after rinses?

Honestly, I don't even use original flavor wicks anymore... I toss them in the trash - brand new. Sorry.

Normally... as in most often, I find that I can just unscrew the base and head, rinse them with warm water, blow through the air tube to clear out any water or old juice.... and set it all aside to dry.

If the vape is funky, I pull the head, air tube, flavor wick... and take a look at the coil. Usually, the coil is gunky, as indicated by the poor vape, so I'll dry burn until clean... sometimes twice, sometimes as many as 5-6 times. Once clean, I'll look at my flavor wick (bamboo) and if it's burnt, I'll replace it. You can dry burn with a silica wick in place.... but not "natural" wicks.

There's no reason, if you're as far as you've got the air tube off, not to remove and look at the underside of the silica flavor wicks.

If this is all really sketchy to you... then I suggest you bite the bullet and just replace the entire coil head. If you have a T3, get a T3S base and T3S coil heads... it's about 1/2 the cost of buying compete T3 base/coil head assemblies.

As you can see, me and xtwosm0kesx are of about the same mind... so you've got good advice here. Pick something out of this and run with it. ;-)

 

[crxess]

I'm one of those that gets decent Time out of my heads.
Mostly Vape lighter e-liquids
Evod or T3-mini
Rinse under very hot water Every 3-4 Tank fills and set aside to dry.
Every 5-10 Tanks Full clean/Dry burn/Burn off Flavor wicks or replace
After every 4-5 Dry burns - Rebuild heads - wick/wire

Darker e-liquids cut by 1/2

 

[Butters78]

It dry burns the coil or it gets a burnt hit again.

 

[State O' Flux]

It dry burns the coil or it gets a burnt hit again.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahahaha hahhaah h ahhahha ................... Funny stuff. ;-)

 

[FloydianSlip]

It dry burns the coil or it gets a burnt hit again.

LMAO Eric! Good one!

 

[Susaz]

As long as I have good flavor and vapor I don't dry burn anymore. Just wash thoroughly with hot running water and leave it several days in alcohol. Some I never dry burn, they go down by shorting, but if it fires and produces no vapor I do dry burn. If you wash them well there's no real need.

 

[TFL!]

On the pro tanks I use darker juice so on the Third fill I put in a washed and dry burned and washed agin in hot tap water adie.

 

[Angiebubs]

I use iClear16s (love them) and have just discovered how to dry burn. I usually rinse after 3-4 fills, then dry vape. I have had 2 now though, that get a really bad burned taste. Any ideas why? I did it the same way each time, and with the ones that taste burned, I still never saw the orange glow. Also, how many times can you dry burn before switching heads? How do you know when its time to switch heads/not dry burn any more?

 

[supermarket]

wow....clean and dry burn daily....seems extreme. Maybe I will just buy replacement coils.....seems like a lot of work.

I use Pro tanks and Evods exclusively. I NEVER dry burn. I've tried it a few times, not my thing.

My coils last anywhere from 5-10 days on average. I've had some last only 3 days, and I've had some last 14 days without needing a rinse, clean or anything. Both 3 days and 14 days are the extremes, and 5-10 days are the average.

Those numbers are based on straight, daily vaping, without cleaning.

I hardly ever even rinse my coils , unless I'm changing eliquids.

The coils are extremely cheap to replace $6 for a 5-pack at discountvaper.com

The coils are extremely easy to rebuild.

On ebay, I bought 10ft. of 2mm silica wick, AND 10 ft. of 32gauge kanthal for less than $10. Thats enough to make over 50 coils.

 

[Fizzpop]

I've actually taking to doing a rinse/dry burn on my Kanger T3s coils about every two tanks. Less junk to burn off and keeps the wick in top-notch shape! I rebuild when the wick starts to fall apart, or the dry burn for whatever reason just isn't doing the trick. I re-wick with 3mm silica and so generally don't need flavor wicks, but on occasion (depending on the build) will need to toss one or two on to mitigate flooding.

Edit: When dry burning you have to get the coils red hot. And several times. I think the problem most people have with dry burning is they don't burn enough. Also, always rinse the coil with water before dry burning. You literally want to burn the coil till it is dry. Your silica wick should be a pristine white when you are done.

 

[onion456]

i recently started rebuilding EVOD/Protank coils, its quite easy once you know what to do. And then i stumbled across this video, which shows how to do a proper dry burn.

How to Clean & Dry Burn... Kanger ProTank - YouTube

well this is a game changer for me, it works extremely well. now i dont even need to rebuild as often.

i happen to be at work, where i have a USB microscope, and be needing to dry burn... so i did it and took pics, you can see the results pretty obviously.

before:



after:

 

[Angiebubs]

I've actually taking to doing a rinse/dry burn on my Kanger T3s coils about every two tanks. Less junk to burn off and keeps the wick in top-notch shape! I rebuild when the wick starts to fall apart, or the dry burn for whatever reason just isn't doing the trick. I re-wick with 3mm silica and so generally don't need flavor wicks, but on occasion (depending on the build) will need to toss one or two on to mitigate flooding.

Edit: When dry burning you have to get the coils red hot. And several times. I think the problem most people have with dry burning is they don't burn enough. Also, always rinse the coil with water before dry burning. You literally want to burn the coil till it is dry. Your silica wick should be a pristine white when you are done.

So what would cause a nasty burn taste smell to linger on the wicks? It was one of the times that I really dry burned the thing till it glowed bright red everytime. Do you re wash your wicks after the dry burn then? to get the smell out of wicks, lil plastic cap, and the tank itself? Also, what can you buy to replace the wicks? Do the coils last that much longer than the wicks that it pays to rewick? (I use the iClear16s)